If you're an asshole, you have an excuse for being an asshole because you're a junkie. But then once you give up the drugs, and you're still an asshole, that's problematic.
Rumi will transform you, in ways you didn’t know you needed transforming.
Junkies are liars. They have to be professionally.
In my family, misery didn't just love company, it wanted hostages.
I kept getting high to kill my shame at the fact that I kept getting high.
I need - and occasionally love - to write for the same reasons I always did: hard as writing is, it's generally easier than life.